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ABSTRACT
This study examines the semantic analysis of ideophones in the Ika language. Ideophones are a unique class of worlds that vividly depict sensory experiences including sounds, movements, textures and emotion and convey rich imagery through sound symbolism and sensory imagery C.M Doke (1935). The study focuses on some semantic aspects of the ideophones in the Ika with the aim of identifying, analyzing and investigating these semantic properties, functions, and semantic domains (fields) of ideophones in the language. Data for the study from a variety of sources in which the native speakers of the Ika language use the language freely as well as published and unpublished works in the language. The basic linguisic theory was adopted as the theory for data analysis. This was done to show how ideophones manifest in the language. Findings show that Ika ideophones act as intensifiers and are not used in the same sentence with their non ideophonic counterparts.
